Popular baby names in Maine, 1917

The most popular baby names in Maine in 1917 were Mary for girls (249 babies) and Robert for boys (229). Robert ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 11,281 babies born in Maine in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Maine in 1917

Names given at least 15 times in Maine that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Yvette: 25 babies, 38.2× the national rate
Germaine: 21 babies, 31.3× the national rate
Adrienne: 15 babies, 22.3× the national rate
Cecile: 32 babies, 12× the national rate
Priscilla: 25 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Avis: 18 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Yvonne: 20 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Corinne: 15 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Arline: 22 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Jeannette: 45 babies, 7.2× the national rate

Boys

Lucien: 25 babies, 37.2× the national rate
Lionel: 29 babies, 20.1× the national rate
Linwood: 15 babies, 18.1× the national rate
Armand: 16 babies, 10.6× the national rate
Earle: 17 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Roland: 63 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Gerard: 20 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Wilfred: 33 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Malcolm: 22 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Alton: 20 babies, 5.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Maine, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	249	–	1
2	Dorothy	226	–	3
3	Helen	172	↑1	2
4	Ruth	166	↓1	5
5	Margaret	124	–	4
6	Elizabeth	113	↑4	8
7	Frances	109	↑2	9
8	Barbara	98	↑14	67
9	Evelyn	96	↓1	11
10	Alice	95	↓3	13
11	Doris	91	↑8	25
12	Virginia	90	↓1	10
13	Pauline	85	↑5	33
14	Phyllis	85	–	92
15	Eleanor	84	↓2	26
16	Florence	82	↑1	14
17	Mildred	82	↓1	6
18	Irene	81	↓12	17
19	Lillian	79	↑4	15
20	Marie	78	↓5	12
21	Gertrude	72	↑8	37
22	Marion	72	↓10	45
23	Edith	68	↑12	28
24	Marjorie	64	–	36
25	Rita	63	new	63
26	Louise	62	↓6	19
27	Thelma	59	↓1	32
28	Beatrice	53	↓7	39
29	Marguerite	53	↑5	78
30	Madeline	52	↑8	>100
31	Arlene	47	↑5	>100
32	Esther	47	↑10	38
33	Eva	47	↑13	54
34	Gladys	47	↓7	23
35	Lucille	47	↓4	29
36	Rose	47	↓6	16
37	Catherine	46	↑2	18
38	Jeannette	45	↑11	>100
39	Grace	43	↑9	30
40	Edna	40	↓8	20
41	Hazel	40	↓16	31
42	Bertha	39	↓14	51
43	Charlotte	39	new	76
44	Elsie	38	new	50
45	Katherine	38	new	49
46	Ethel	37	↓13	24
47	Muriel	36	↓10	>100
48	Anna	35	↓8	7
49	Shirley	34	new	>100
50	Geraldine	33	new	89

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Robert	229	–	4
2	John	225	–	1
3	William	155	↑1	2
4	George	154	↓1	6
5	Charles	150	↑2	7
6	Joseph	142	↓1	5
7	James	124	↑1	3
8	Harold	122	↑4	12
9	Donald	110	↓3	20
10	Edward	102	–	8
11	Arthur	100	↓2	17
12	Richard	94	↓1	14
13	Raymond	84	–	16
14	Kenneth	82	↑3	27
15	Paul	76	↑5	13
16	Ralph	74	–	21
17	Albert	72	↓3	18
18	Lawrence	71	–	36
19	Frank	69	↓4	9
20	Philip	66	↑4	66
21	Ernest	64	↑1	37
22	Roland	63	↑1	>100
23	Walter	62	↓4	11
24	Herbert	54	↑18	40
25	Henry	52	–	15
26	Leo	52	–	47
27	Alfred	49	↑3	43
28	Norman	49	↑1	46
29	Carl	47	↑2	24
30	Arnold	44	new	91
31	Francis	44	↓10	30
32	Frederick	44	–	51
33	Stanley	44	↓6	34
34	Louis	42	↑1	23
35	Clarence	41	↓1	25
36	Thomas	41	↓8	10
37	Harry	39	↓4	19
38	Gerald	36	–	69
39	Eugene	34	↑8	39
40	Fred	34	↑10	29
41	Clifford	33	↑8	59
42	David	33	↓5	28
43	Wilfred	33	new	>100
44	Howard	31	↓8	26
45	Leroy	31	new	60
46	Maurice	31	↓5	>100
47	Roger	31	↓1	>100
48	Earl	30	↓8	32
49	Everett	30	new	94
50	Lionel	29	new	>100

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